Improved medical compound



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' GEORGE HAMILTON SMITH; OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR To HIMSELF AND STEPHEN GAY, OF SAME PLACE am Pawm N 102,980, dated May 10, 1870.

- IMPROVED MEDICAL con/mound The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pan of thesamn.

' VI, GEORGE HAMILTON SMITH, of the city-of New 3 Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a' certain Medical Compound, to'be used as as a remedyor cure for all diseases of the lungs, such as c0nsu-niptiou, coughs, and the like.

The nature of my invention consists in making a decoct-ion of the'following ingredients, to wit: water,

, loaf-sugar, diied button or syphalanthus bark, aconite,

and the extract of ipecacuanha, in definite and fixed proportions.

To'make one hundred and forty-four bottles, containing eight ounces each, of my compound, take six gallons of pure water, seventy-two pounds of loafsugar, five pounds of dry bark of the but-ton bush or syphaianthus, one ounce of aconite, and two ounces of the extract of i pecacuanha put all together in any proper vessel, and boil for. three hours; then let the mixture cool, strain and bottle, and my compound is ready for use.

' I claim as my invention the nianufiwtureor'preparation of a medical compound,.of the ingredients, in

the proportions, and for the purpose set forth.

GEO H. SMITH.

Witnesses:

RUFUS R. RHODES, H. N. J mmms. 

